Showing posts with label Informed Consent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Informed Consent. Show all posts

June 20, 2015

Euthanasia By Belgium Doctors Without Consent Studied




[From article]
A study published this month in the Journal of Medical Ethics examined the “deliberate” euthanasia of patients in Belgium without their explicit, voluntary consent as required by law.
The study’s author, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, a professor of philosophy and ethics at the United Kingdom's Hull University, found that life-ending drugs were used “with the intention to shorten life and without explicit request” in 1.7 percent of all deaths in Belgium in 2013.
In 52.7 percent of these cases, the patients were 80 years of age or older. The decision to euthanize was not discussed with the patient in 77.9 percent of the cases because he/she was comatose, had dementia, or “because discussion would have been harmful to the patient’s best interest,” according to the study.
Belgium passed the Euthanasia Act in 2002, which states that only voluntary euthanasia is legally permissible.
“At the heart of this legislation is the free will of the patient who asks for euthanasia,” Cohen-Almagor noted. “It is worrying that some physicians take upon themselves the responsibility to deliberately shorten patients’ lives without a clear indication from the patients that this is what they would want.”
[. . .]
Although end-of-life decisions should be discussed with the patient’s relatives, the statement noted that the final decision is “made by the care team and not by the relatives.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/abigail-wilkinson/belgian-doctors-are-euthanizing-patients-without-their-consent

Belgian Doctors Are Euthanizing Patients Without Their Consent
By Abigail Wilkinson
June 18, 2015 | 3:05 PM EDT

March 22, 2015

Doctor Discovers Government Medical Research Abuses Using Human Subjects for Dangerous Experiments Without Consent




It is worse than this doctor discovered. Not only are politicians and medical professionals not interested in unlawful experiments using human subjects without informed consent, but the very taxpayer funded US government agency whose mission is to protect human subjects, refuses to investigate any claims about such illegal practices. The Office of Human Subject Protection demands that human subjects provide evidence of wrongdoing. They want to know who the principle researcher is. But if an experiment is being conducted without consent how can the human subject know who is doing it? For example. This abuse is institutionalized historically. There are a few books about some egregious abuses. I Swear By Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron And The CIA Brainwashing by Don Gillmor, Journey Into Madness by Gordon Thomas, My Life at the Bar and Beyond by Alex K. Paterson, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada by Anne Collins, about Ewen Cameron at McGill, funded by the CIA. Michael D'Antonio's book State Boys Rebellion about the MIT experiments for Quaker Oats, performed on institutionalized young men at the Fernald State School in Waltham MA.

[From article]
During the 2000s, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-funded researchers at Southern California Medical Schools sprayed high doses of diesel exhaust particles up the noses of 10-15 year old children in a ‘scientific’ experiment to see what would happen. Federal and California State laws prohibit such immoral and unethical experiments with children or even adults. Does the EPA disregard and disrespect law and ethics in a mindless crusade to regulate air?
Although specifically required to do so by federal regulations and the Nuremberg Code-based California state law — if not basic morality — the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers failed to disclose to the children and parents of those children that the EPA, at the time had concluded that diesel exhaust emissions contained particles that are toxic, dangerous, deadly and cause cancer.
[. . .]
After evidence of these illegal human exposures to small particle air pollution experiments in Southern California Medical Research facilities was discovered in 2012 by Steve Milloy of Junk Science.com, the EPA tried to delete the evidence from its publicly available Internet archives.
[. . .]
The agency had nothing to worry about, however, since politicians, pubic officials, even licensing boards, and, of course, the lapdog media, have not noted or criticized the conduct.
[. . .]
a college co-ed guinea pig at the University of Rochester died as the result of a procedure related to a human exposure experiment from a complication of a diagnostic procedure.
A report of one of the research projects at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill attracted the attention of JunkScience.com, but it was discovered in litigation that other universities and their faculties around the country are involved in the unethical and inhumane exposure experiments, including, by admission of EPA official Eugene Cascio, MD, Medical Schools at Rutgers, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Washington (State) U, UCLA, USC, and the Lovelace Medical affiliated with the U of New Mexico.
These Medical Schools and research groups have engaged in human exposure experiments for more than 10 years, receiving grants of more than 8 million dollars.
The American Tradition Institute (ATI, now called the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute) sued the EPA in 2012 to stop an ongoing experiment. After a round of procedural wrangling, the judge dismissed the suit, holding that ATI didn’t have the standing to protect the human study subjects. Only the study subjects themselves had the standing to sue. But since EPA had lied to the study subjects about the risks of the exposures in the experiments, how would they even know their legal rights had been violated?
I have written about this problem to all the 18 Republican physicians in the congress but have received not once response or inquiry. These are all licensed physicians who are, by their licensure, obligated to take action to prevent public harm by other practitioners. They are also obligated by their public positions as Congressmen.
I have also written to State Medical Boards in North Carolina and Michigan, for example, about this scandal and the Deans of the 10 Medical Schools that do human exposure experiments, according to EPA officials. Not one letter of response or indication of concern has been received.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/the_epa_uses_children_and_adults_as_guinea_pigs_.html

January 26, 2015
The EPA Uses Children (and Adults) as Guinea Pigs
By John Dale Dunn MD JD

October 15, 2014

Cheating Husband. OK With This Wife



Constant betrayal: Maria-Louise accepts her 55-year-old lover's infidelities

[From article]
For six years now I have been in the most significant, loving relationship of my life with Tim. We’re a couple, but in order for us to exist as such, I must allow him to sleep with whoever he likes whenever he likes.
You may wonder why I, a successful career woman (I was a sales executive for most of my life) who owns a detached, mortgage-free £250,000 cottage, would put up with such disgusting behaviour from a man who claims to love me. But the truth is today, at 57, my chances of finding anyone else are so remote that I’ve no choice but to accept it.
After all, as I revealed in the Mail five months ago, I was a virgin until I was 51: even though I was married twice before I met Tim, both my husbands had refused to have sex with me.
Then, two years into our relationship, Tim made it crystal clear to me that fidelity was out of the question. Since we’ve been seeing each other, to my knowledge, he has slept with three other women.
[. . .]
According to Tim, he had the ‘right’ to have sex with who he liked. Hiding my shock, I explained that, for me, sex is the closest two people can possibly be, and that making love was an expression of my feelings for him. He merely replied it was better for me that I knew this was how it was going to be. Defeated, I said I’d accept it, as long as he was discreet. What other choice did I have?
[. . .]
I told him I loved him and pleaded that I wanted him to reconsider his attitude towards fidelity.
He replied that it was out of the question: sex, according to Tim, is akin to browsing at the supermarket: one week he might fancy a rump steak, the next roast chicken. The choice was his to make.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2791669/would-let-man-sleep-women-stop-leaving-divorcee-maria-louise-does-says-57-no-choice.html

Would you let your man sleep with other women to stop him leaving you? Divorcee Maria-Louise does - and says at 57 she has no choice
Maria-Louise has been married twice, to men who refused to have sex
She met her current boyfriend Tim while married to second husband Carol
Six months after they first had sex, she found out he'd indulged in a fling
According to Tim, 55, he had the ‘right’ to have sex with who he liked
Likened choosing women to sleep with to browsing at a supermarket
At 57, Maria-Louise feels she can no longer afford to be choosy
By MARIA-LOUISE WARNE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:10 EST, 13 October 2014 | UPDATED: 23:28 EST, 13 October 2014


July 17, 2014

Justina Pelletier Working Congress To Stop Abuse of Human Subjects for Experiments




Justina Pelletier

Arrogant medical researchers use adult human subjects, not just children, for experiments contrary to law. When victims of these medical abuses complain they bring out the psychiatrists to declare the victims insane. Psychiatry is an effective tool to censor victims of criminal abuse of power. The courts protect these criminals. Academic administrators protect their taxpayer funds by denying it happens.  



[From article]
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Wednesday in Washington has introduced a bipartisan bill nicknamed “Justina’s Law” that would ban federal funding for medical experimentation on children who are wards of the state.
“She’s now free and the purpose of Justina’s law will be to make sure this never, ever, ever, happens again and Justina hit it out of the park when she spoke to numerous members of Congress today to ask them to support Justina’s law,” said Bachmann.
Pelletier says she was mistreated and the subject of medical experimentation at Children’s Hospital in Boston, while in the custody of the State of Massachusetts.
Bachmann says several hospitals involve children in research that presents great risk, sometimes with no benefit to the child.


U.S. Rep. Michele Bachman

http://foxct.com/2014/07/16/justina-pelletier-pushes-law-in-washington-d-c/

Justina Pelletier Pushes Law in Washington D.C.

July 16, 2014
by Beau Berman
Investigative Reporter


June 5, 2014

California Bill Requires Written Consent for College Sex



[From article]
A newly amended bill from a California lawmaker would require college students to stop in the heat of passion and establish verbal or written consent before having sex anywhere on campus, reports L.A. Weekly.
SB 967, amended last week by state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would mandate that college students obtain "an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity."
[. . .]
Despite the bill's noble intentions, not everyone is sold on the proposed legislation.
In an article for LegalInsurrection.com, attorney Hans Bader argues the language of the proposed law could make ordinary people out to be sexual criminals.
"Since most people have engaged in sex without verbal consent, supporters of the bill are effectively redefining most people, and most happily-married couples, as rapists," he said.
Bader goes even further, saying the law could violate individual privacy rights:
Requiring people to have verbal discussion before sex violates their privacy rights, under the logic of Supreme Court decisions such as Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which struck down Texas' sodomy law, and federal appeals court decisions like Wilson v. Taylor (1984), which ruled that dating relationships are protected against unwarranted meddling by the Constitutional freedom of intimate association.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/04/College-Students-May-Need-Verbal-or-Written-Consent-to-Have-Sex-on-Campus

CA BILL DEMANDS VERBAL OR WRITTEN CONSENT FOR SEX ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
by DANIEL NUSSBAUM
4 Jun 2014

April 2, 2014

EPA Conducted Human Experiments Without Consent Endangering Elders



[From article]
These experiments exposed people, including those with asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater than the agency says is safe for humans.
The EPA conducted five experiments in 2010 and 2011 to look at the health effects of particulate matter, or PM, and diesel exhaust on humans. The IG’s report found that the EPA did get consent forms from 81 people in five studies. But the IG also found that “exposure risks were not always consistently represented.”
[. . .]
“Maybe the biggest reason to slow down the new rule is that the EPA is talking out of both sides of their mouth,” Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter said last year. “On one side exposure to it is deadly, and on the other they say human exposure studies are not harmful.”
[. . .]
“It’s alarming how the EPA is purposefully and blatantly ignoring an ongoing investigation of the legality and therefore scientific legitimacy of the use of human testing,” Vitter said. “This is another example of the EPA continuing to pick and choose scientific ‘facts’ to support their overreaching agenda.”

Thus there was no informed consent.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/report-epa-tested-deadly-pollutants-on-humans-to-push-obama-admins-agenda/

Report: EPA tested deadly pollutants on humans to push Obama admin’s agenda
11:53 AM 04/02/2014
Daily Caller

October 22, 2013

Google Will Use Images and Names Without Consent


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2455411/Google-use-photo-endorse-products-wont-ask-first.html

Google to use your name and photo to endorse products you have reviewed - and they won't ask you first
Changes will start on November 11 but will only affect users with Google+
You can opt out of sharing
Your reviews and content bought on Google Play store could show up in ads displayed to your friends and connections when they search on Google
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:17 EST, 11 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:08 EST, 11 October 2013

September 15, 2013

California Neurologists Kill Patient In Human Experiment, Medical Research Without Consent




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402204/Two-doctors-resign-injecting-brain-cancer-patients-bacteria.html
Two doctors resign after they inject brain cancer sufferers with bowel bacteria without permission - killing two patients
Dr J Paul Muizelaar and Dr Rudolph J Schrot have stepped down from their positions as neurologists at the University of California, Davis
Their resignation comes after the two purposefully injected three brain cancers with a bowel bacteria in an attempt to elongate their lives
Two of the patients died within weeks of the experimental procedure
An internal investigation found that the two doctors didn't get the proper permission to carry out the procedure
Both doctors plan to continue practicing neurology
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 11:50 EST, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 26 August 2013

July 9, 2013

CA Prisons Sterilize Women Inmates Without Consent



The California Institution for Women in Corona was one of two state prisons where female inmates were sterilized without required state approvals. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules from 2006 to 2010.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation



Women In North Carolina Compensated



Continuing a tradition begun in Massachusetts, the state of California sterilized prison inmates without consent. Massachusetts did that to mental patients under the eugenics society's direction. Mass officials were praised by Adolf Hitler when he learned what the state was doing in America. He was encouraged to pursue using humans for medical research using Jewish prisoners of concentration camps. It led to the Nuremberg Trials run by Americans. But the United States did not codify those rules and the tradition continues abusing vulnerable humans in the United States. Politicians remain focused on high school bullying and same sex marriage while sociopaths among the medical community continue their depraved activities.  



http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
Jul 07, 2013
Corey G. Johnson
Money and Politics Reporter

June 10, 2013

Harvard Med School Research Dean Leaves For Big Business Gig



"the Medical School [. . .] announced that due to financial constraints it would close its New England Primate Research Center, which has come under fire for what some have called negligent treatment of animals.";Why is there never any concern about illegal abuses of humans used for medical research without consent at the prestigious medical school? Why are complaints about grad students abusing vulnerable humans always ignored? Why is abuse of human subjects less important than abuse of animal subjects? Why are humans who complain about non consensual human experiments designated mentally ill by prominent medical school professors?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/6/7/hms-research-dean-departs/#

HMS Research Dean To Depart
William Chin leaves Harvard after three years
By LAYA ANASU and FATIMA MIRZA,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
June 7, 2013

January 20, 2013

Academic Lapdogs Approve Blaming Victims of Psychiatric Abuses


NBC quotes Paul Appelbaum, who is now a titled expert on ethics. He wrote an essay published in 1995, 
http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/Decisionmaking/MacArthuCompetencestudy1.pdf
"Mental Illness and Competence to Consent to Treatment" in which he concluded that mental patients have lucid moments when they can give informed consent to being used for medical research. But they are unable to exercise rational thought when it comes to owning guns. Isn't that convenient? And isn't that a troubling opinion to quote on this attempt by government to demonize all persons accused of mental illness? Margaret Hagan Professor of Psychology at Boston University exposed the fraud of mental illnesses in her delightful tome, "Whores of the Court." 

Appelbaum and others quoted by NBC share the interests of the drug industry. Appelbaum is affiliated with the New York Psychiatric Institute which conducted extreme experiments on patients without consent. Columbia University is enormously invested in the pharmaceutical industry. They place the blame on persons who are often forced to ingest psychiatric drugs which are a known cause of suicidal thoughts and violence. Even the drug-company controlled FDA requires a black box warning label on those drugs. Yet over paid misguided journalists and spineless politicians continue to divert attention from the cause of violence. It is the drugs not the troubled persons who are taking them that is the problem. So much for informing the electorate who favors more abuses of humans. More psychiatry will only increase the amount of violence. This is one more example of the upside down arguments by the misguided and misdirected control freaks who seek to eliminate individual freedom in the name of security.

Hitler and Stalin both took guns from the population, and used psychiatry to take freedom from others who did not comport with the wishes of the leaders. Journalists indicate their beliefs that American psychiatrists have had their genes cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. Appelbaum demonstrated his duplicity in published articles. Yet he is now a "respected ethicist?" How very comforting to drug industry interests. That is what passes for watch dogs in contemporary society. The watch dogs in the media and among academics have become lap dogs. 

NBC says, "If there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on, it’s that mentally ill people should not have access to firearms." Republicans and Democrats are unable to manage the budget. Now they are experts on predicting who is violent? Not even the omniscient and morally superior mental health priests can accurately predict the future. But that does not mean they are ever held accountable for their errors. Mental illness is now a political issue. It has never been a scientific discipline and perhaps enough scrutiny will expose it for the fraud that it is. Petitioning for more taxpayer funds is just exacerbating the waste and abuse of taxpayer funds. 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/18/16588357-anger-violent-thoughts-are-you-too-sick-to-own-a-gun?lite

Anger, violent thoughts: Are you too sick to own a gun?
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer,
NBC News
January 19, 2013

* * *
On conflict of interest between psychiatry and drug companies.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/health/psychiatry-professional-suicide/index.html

Is psychiatry committing 'professional suicide'?
By Maia Szalavitz,
TIME.com
updated 10:09 AM EDT, Tue October 9, 2012

December 4, 2012

Harvard Overseer Steps Down

Was Overseer King the ultimate authority on when it was ethical for
involuntary medical and military research using human subjects without
consent at Harvard?


http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/4/corporation-member-steps-down/

Corporation Member To Step Down
By SAMUEL Y. WEINSTOCK,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Tuesday, December 04, 2012

November 16, 2012

Italian Doctors Experimented on Humans Without Consent

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20051278/italian-cardiologists-arrested-over-experiments

Italian cardiologists arrested over experiments
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 7:54 AM EST Updated: Nov 09, 2012 7:54 AM EST
FOX News New York NY

October 14, 2012

Abuse of Human Subjects in Research Criticized

Though the academic community has mostly people with integrity on their IRBs it is still easy to thwart the intent of the toothless laws (45 CFR 46) on using human subjects for medical research. Government and military researchers still use involuntary human subjects and without the need for any IRB. By using private individuals unaffiliated with the academic institution, there is no need for IRB approval. The problem arises when the research is conducted on property of an institution which receives US taxpayer funds. That jeopardizes all of the research grants received by the institution. Harvard sends one letter to the NIH called an "Assurance Letter" which promises to obey all the laws regarding using human subjects. That one letter covers all of the hundreds of millions that Harvard receives each year. One violation would end all the money. So it is essential to prevent any illegal research on Harvard property from being investigated by the Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Speak No Evil human protection agency at the NIH. So far so good. Harvard continues to get taxpayer money no matter what goes on. 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/11/kiel-study-fractures-journal/

Journal Expresses Concern About Professor's Criticized Study
By DEV A. PATEL, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Harvard Crimson

October 1, 2012

US Researchers Used Human Subjects for Involuntary Radiation Experiments in St. Louis

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210415/Revealed-Army-scientists-secretly-sprayed-St-Louis-radioactive-particles-YEARS-test-chemical-warfare-technology.html

Revealed: Army scientists secretly sprayed St Louis with 'radioactive' particles for YEARS to test chemical warfare technology
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 09:16 EST, 29 September 2012 | UPDATED: 11:21 EST, 29 September 2012

July 24, 2012

U. California Researchers Used Dying Patients For Experiments Without Consent

Still no penalties for violation of US laws using human subjects for experiments without consent. Defenders of this situation claim that banning the researchers from performing human experiments is punishment. Oh? How about if we ban murderers from committing murder when they are caught killing another person? Is that accountability as well? It shows how these morally superior, usually academics, get away with murder literally. They can kill human subjects and say they were enrolled in an experiment and not be held accountable. That actually happened in Boston. When I called Boston police to inquire if they investigated deaths in experiments at Harvard University Medical School teaching hospitals, they told me not to call again. The police spokesman told me the researchers do their own investigations. I asked if I was accused of killing would I be allowed to do the investigation? The DA and the Medical Examiner also did not investigate those deaths.
To suggest that the use of human subjects is strictly controlled is misleading if not completely false. There are no penalties under law. Unlike use of animals in experiments in violation of law, where there are fines and prison penalties. In addition what are the figures about oversight after 2000, when a Harvard psychiatrist was the director of the Office of Human Subjects Protection at the NIH, not the FDA, which regulates devices. The rules were loosened by this director.


http://bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20120728uc-davis_neurosurgeon_temporarily_steps_down_as_department_chair_amid_probe/srvc=news&position=recent_bullet

UC-Davis neurosurgeon ‘temporarily’ steps down as department chair amid probe
Boston Herald
By Marjie Lundstrom
McClatchy Newspapers
Saturday, July 28, 2012

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[From article]
A prominent University of California, Davis neurosurgeon and his colleague have been banned from performing medical research on humans after the two were accused of experimenting on dying brain cancer patients without university permission.[...]
Research on humans is tightly controlled in the U.S., requiring a thorough approval process by the FDA, which it is alleged the neurosurgeons failed to follow.
...]
Between 1998 and 2000, federal regulators suspended human research at seven university medical centers and one veterans hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178072/A-pair-neurosurgeons-banned-human-research-illegally-introduced-bacteria-cancer-patients-open-wounds-led-deaths.html

Doctors who EXPERIMENTED on dying brain cancer patients without permission banned from research
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 00:28 EST, 24 July 2012 | UPDATED: 01:42 EST, 24 July 2012

March 25, 2012

SCOTUS Argument on Obamacare, Forced Contract Invalid

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/broken_contract_t10FKu0mzJF39tLNI4Y6nM

Broken contract
ObamaCare court case is about whether government can force you to sign a compact
George F. Will
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:06 AM, March 25, 2012
Posted: 10:25 PM, March 24, 2012

November 3, 2011

Project MKULTRA

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Project+MKULTRA

Project MKULTRA
The Free Dictionary
November 3, 2011

November 1, 2011

University Professor Conducts Involuntary Experiments on Students

http://www.news9.com/story/15920118/ou-professor-accused-of-using-students-as-guinea-pigs-for-experiments

OU Professor Accused Of Questionable Medical Practices On Students
Posted: Nov 01, 2011 12:47 AM EST Updated: Nov 01, 2011 12:49 AM EST
Adrianna Iwasinski,
TV News 9 Oklahoma City OK

June 15, 2011

Austrian Urologist Experimented Without Consent

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/health/news/article_1645644.php/Austrian-doctor-on-trial-for-alleged-human-experiments

Austrian doctor on trial for alleged human experiments
Jun 15, 2011, 12:50 GMT
Deutsche Presse-Agentur